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With the final installment of Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren says good-bye to her greatest role.

Here come the TV screamies: quickie horror flicks that put the �low� in �Halloween.�

A documentary about Daniel Pearl and his murderer charts a tragic collision between two surprising men.

If they weren’t in New York to begin with, you can bet that this gang�the Japanese salaryman who teleports, the Indian genetics professor with a superpowers theory, the Las Vegas stripper with a guardian-angel doppelgänger, the beat cop who hears what people think, the high-school cheerleader who can walk through fire, the male nurse who can fly, and the drug-addicted artist who is painting the horrific future�would wind up in this city together.

We’ve been here many times before, with a whole family on the run, although this time, at least, it has nothing to do with the witness-protection program.

When you’ve got Peter O’Toole in a Masterpiece Theatre mini-series, who cares how many liberties teleplaywright Russell T. Davies took with the confabulations of Giovanni Giacomo Casanova?

Men in Trees is Northern Exposure Lite�and it’s not the only new comedy that’s depressingly familiar.

On the gloriously bloody Dexter, Michael C. Hall plays the charming psycho next door.

Even if every hour of Standoff doesn’t live up to the air-traffic-controller-gone-bananas episode that aired on September 12, at least once a week all of us will get to go home with the spectacular DeWitt.

This glorious six-hour account of the civil-rights movement includes interviews, documentary footage, home movies, and period music, all of which depict a second American revolution.